Patient Safety in Intensive Care Medicine - The Declaration of Vienna 2009 
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Joint Position Statement Family Presence during CPR
adopted by the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care - ESPNIC, the European Federation of Critical Care Nursing Assiciations- EfCCNA and the European Society of Cardiology, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions - CCNAP
New Standards for Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Design
Ventilator Bundle practices that limit iatrogenic injury
Prevent Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) and death from VAP and other complications in patients on ventilator by reliably implementing a set of interventions known as the Ventilator Bundle.
Position Statement on the Provision on Critical Care Education
In May 2003 the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses under took a review of the Declaration of Madrid and recommendations from the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses position statement on critical care nursing education and other similar documents from member associations. The current position statement aims to inform/assist critical care nursing associations, health services, educational facilities and other interested parties in the development and provision of critical care nursing education.
AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments
American Association of Critical Care Nurses’s Healthy Work Environment Initiative is a multi-pronged, multi-year effort to engage nurses, employers and the nursing profession in recognizing the urgency and importance of working collaboratively to improve the environments in which nurses work.
Surviving Sepsis Campaign
Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
These guidelines have been endorsed by American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, European Respiratory Society, Infectious Disease Society of America, International Sepsis Forum, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infection Society
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Inhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy in Neonates and Children: reaching a European Consensus
Results of a consensus meeting jointly organised by the European Society of Paediattric and Neonatal Intensive Care, the European Research and the European Society of Neonatology
Last update: 26Oct2009/IH